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Military Newsreels: 1942 Issue 18
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Synopsis: Troops Advance Through New Guinea Jungles, President Batista Of Cuba Visits U.S., Merchant Marines Graduate And Pass In Review, 13 Year Old Marine Sent Home After Year In Service, Coastal Batteries Ready To Defend U.S., British 8th Army Rolls Across Libya...(read more)
- Date: 1942
- Duration: 00:08:06
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: New Guinea, United States, Washington, Pacific Northwest, Philadelphia, Libya
MacArthur Blasts Japanese From New Guinea
Over New Guinea big United States Army transport planes fly troops by the hundreds across the Owen Stanley Mountains for the final Allied assault upon Japanese bases on this strategic island in the South Pacific. Native tribesmen enthusiastically welcome the soldiers who have come thousands of miles across the sea to drive the invader from their land.
For weeks American and Australian soldiers and marines pressed forward through jungle country relentlessly driving the Japanese back into the sea. Stopping only to reform their lines, to coordinate their plan of attack, they rest where they can, ammunition always ready. A captured machine gun now turned against the enemy. The American success against the Japanese in New Guinea, a saga of courage and bravery in the face of incredible odds.
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01:01:00:03
Fresh U.S. Troops arrive in New Guinea and receive an enthusiastically welcome from the Native Tribesmen.
01:01:34:00
Shows captured Japanese machine gun.
Roosevelt Greets Cuban President
Cuba's president arrives in Washington. A military guard of honor salutes the one time army sergeant who now holds his country's highest office. Fulgencio Batista welcome to the capital. President Roosevelt waits to greet him. Staunch exponent of America's Good Neighbor policy President Batista was one of the first to follow the United States in war upon the Axis. He meets Vice President Wallace and the cabinet. And he's off to inspect United States war plants.
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01:02:16:14
President Roosevelt greets Cuban President Fulgencio Batista on his arrival in Washington.
U.S. Training Huge Merchant Marine!
These are men trained to sail America's fast growing Merchant Marine. Graduates of the greatest school of its kind in the world. Ten thousand new able seamen ready to help the United States Army and Navy deliver the goods to United Nations. First enlistments in a training program that calls for thirty thousand United States Merchant seamen every year.
Americans In The News
On a modest farm in Midwestern United States the Herrington family is helping America win this war. In addition to farm chores they've turned their house into a factory making machine tools for armament plants. Father and Mother working side by side. Their sons, even their grandchildren, are helping. Producing tools needed for large plants this farm family's inventive genius is typical of Americans from coast to coast.
High in the mountain ranges along the Pacific a girl owns and operates one of the busiest chrome mines in the country. Chrome, an essential metal formally imported from the Philippines is needed for war production. Running the mine herself this typical American woman is producing some twenty tons of precious metal every day. Again, this is America all out for war.
In Philadelphia, seaman Norman Saul comes home, the idol of the neighborhood. When Norman's aunt told officials he was only fourteen years old Norman was sent home, his pay in war bonds, and told to go back to school. His patriotism is appreciated but fourteen is too young for the United States Navy.
And here's another, a marine. In the service for a year before they found he was only thirteen years old. Yes, they're sending him home to grow up too. Six feet one, a hundred and seventy-three pounds, every inch a typical boy. With fighting spirit like this America can't lose.
Big Guns Guard U.S. Coastline!
United States Artillerymen roll out ammunition for the huge disappearing guns that are a part of America's elaborate coastal defense system. The charge is rammed home and from the fire control tower keen eyes spot the target. America speaks!
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01:05:19:01
Shows loading and firing of large U.S. coastal gun mounted on disappearing carriage.
British Rout Nazis In Libya
Newest phase of the British Eighth 8th Army's victory in Libya. General Montgomery, fighting son of an Irish churchman, directing the campaign that is hurling Marshal Rommel and his Nazis Africa Corps back across the desert in utter collapse. Past wrecked planes blasted from the ground and from the air. Seventy percent of the enemy's mechanized equipment smashed in its tracks. Through mud and muck the longest sustained advance in military history.
Dirty and begrimed Nazis General Wilhelm von Thoma, Rommel's second in command, is captured by a British Hussar (Captain Allen Grant Singer of the 10th Royal Hussars). Arriving at General Montgomery's headquarters the prisoner is ordered flown to England.
Mine sweepers, the engineers are the real heroes. Using magnetic detectors they go ahead of the tanks clearing the desert of German planted mine fields. The magnets sound a buzzer when they detect mines hidden in the sand.
Now, infantry to the attack. So swift is the advance that as these pictures are issued news comes that Rommel's army has been split. Half his force is trapped. Pressing ever westward through the smoke of battle the Allied pincers close on Rommel as he races to join his shattered force with a Nazis army in Tunisia.
Rear guards surrender one by one. Eight entire Italian divisions have been knocked out. Four of Germany's famed Afrika Korps divisions are done for. Down the (Via balbia or Via Balbo) road, named for Italy's late Marshal Balbo, a procession of trucks loaded with captives streams to the rear. Three hundred thousand prisoners taken by the British. Their days of fighting over.
At El Agheila, where Rommel was expected to make a desperate stand, British fighting men see the tide of war turn for the United Nations as the Union Jack (British flag) flies over Libya.
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01:06:00:05
Images of 8th Army General Montgomery in Libya, on top of tank looking through field glasses.
01:06:12:20
Scenes of wrecked Nazi planes a burning German mechanized equipment.
01:06:23:08
Scenes of British infantry advancing with fixed bayonets thought the Libyan mud.
01:06:31:18
Images of captured German General Wilhelm von Thoma, Rommel's second in command.
01:06:42:22
British minesweepers or sappers clear the desert of mine fields.
01:07:35:16
Artillery guns firing from camouflage emplacements.
01:07:45:15
British Infantry advance through smoke of battle.
01:07:51:16
Show surrender of German rear guard soldier.
01:08:09:26
300,000 prisoners of war (POWs) captured by British.
01:08:23:29
Nazi flag is lowered and British flag raised over El Agheila.
